First Person Periods

Periods

“I liked a lot of conventionally ‘girly’ things, so I had to be a girl, right?”

Naoise writes about the experience of starting periods and navigating chronic pain as a trans person, and how shame slowly made way for compassion.

“As an intersex person living as a male, I just want my periods to end”

We speak to Arthur, who has a rare intersex condition, about how it feels to menstruate when you're living as a man.

First Person Periods: Sarah

This First Person Periods story comes from Sarah, who was shocked to discover the reason for some unpleasant symptoms she was having.

First Person Periods: Ursula

Ursula explains how almost losing her womb after a life-threatening postpartum haemorrhage changed her perspective on having periods.

First Person Periods: CJ

In the second of our articles about what it’s really like to have periods, CJ writes about living with fibroids and the heavy bleeding they cause.

First Person Periods: Kat

In our new series about how it really feels to have periods, Kat talks about how cervical cancer has changed her perspective on her relationship with her body.

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